There is radio silence from Tennessee Republican leaders about the FBI raid on President Donald Trump's longtime "fixer," as well as the president's subsequent rant in an unrelated news conference that it was "an attack on our country."
There is radio silence after Trump's open snarls that perhaps he should fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
One might think that our Republican delegation - like most Republican officials - was blissfully unaware that FBI agents on Monday raided the home, office and motel room of Michael Cohen - the president's longtime personal attorney.
One might think that GOP leaders missed the president's fuming remarks Monday after news outlets began reporting that agents seized documents and records - some related to the Stormy Daniels' payment.
Perhaps they didn't see the blaring Washington Post headline that Cohen is under investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations. Repeat: campaign finance violations.
We've seen no statement from the usually vocal Bob Corker, who isn't running again for his Senate seat. Corker did, however, find time to send out a news release noting that he'll preside over the nomination hearing on Thursday to confirm Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo.
We've seen nothing from Sen. Lamar Alexander, who won't run for re-election until 2020.
Similarly, there's been nothing from Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, a Chattanooga attorney who is seeking re-election this year and probably will wear his touring-Chickamauga-lock hardhat every day from now until Election Day in hopes there might be a photographer somewhere nearby.
But Trump didn't shirk the limelight. Nor did he hide his anger. Cameras whirring, Trump vented, arms crossed tightly against his chest during a televised prelude to a meeting with military advisers. There, our president openly ruminated whether to fire Mueller. And he trashed - again - his attorney general and the FBI.
To watch him and to listen to him as he wildly ranted was to fully feel his panic: Might Cohen be the bridge between two legal cases threatening him - that of the Russia probe and that of a porn star?
"I have this witch hunt constantly going on," Trump said. "It's, frankly, a real disgrace. It's an attack on our country, in a true sense. It's an attack on what we all stand for. ... That is really now on a whole new level of unfairness. ..."
Trump called Cohen "a good man" and said Attorney General Jeff Sessions, made "a very terrible mistake for the country" by recusing himself from the Russia probe.
And finally our president dipped again to the Clinton well: "And yet the other side, they don't even bother looking. And the other side is where there are crimes, and those crimes are obvious. Lies, under oath, all over the place. Emails that are knocked out, that are acid-washed and deleted. Nobody has ever seen - 33,000 emails are deleted after getting a subpoena for Congress, and nobody bothers looking at that. And many, many other things. ..."
Witch hunt? Really, Donald? First of all, the Cohen raid was not conducted with a Mueller court order. Mueller's team turned over some information it found and questioned in the course of the Russia probe to the Justice Department for separate investigation. The Justice Department pitched it to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which obtained permission for the raids from a federal judge - one appointed by Trump himself.
Second, this "witch hunt" couldn't have gotten this far without evidence linking individuals in Trump's orbit.
So far the probe has netted five guilty pleas from indictments against 19 people and three companies. These people include four former Trump advisers, 13 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, a California man who has admitted to identity theft in connection with the Russian indictments, and a London-based lawyer with connections to the Ukraine.
It is a given that a sitting president gets the benefit of the doubt and careful treatment by prosecutors and judges, so imagine how much evidence these investigators had to amass before they went before this Trump-appointed federal judge to request permission for the massive Cohen search warrant.
The Washington Post put it this way:
"Cohen is Trump's virtual vault - the keeper of his secrets, from his business deals to his personal affairs - and the executor of his wishes."
Joyce White Vance, a former U.S. attorney in Alabama, told the Post on Monday: "This search warrant is like dropping a bomb on Trump's front porch."
It's little wonder that our Republican elected lawmakers are quiet.
But that doesn't make it right.
Donald Trump already has done long-term damage to our country. Our elected members of Congress need to be patriotic enough to stand up to him, censure him, remove him - for American democracy.